In what has become a three-week streak of celestial phenomenon across the Idaho skies, residents can look up Tuesday night, and perhaps other nights this week, to see an ancient comet zooming past Earth during its estimated 80,000-year orbit through the solar system.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) should be visible to the naked eye after sunset, as the comet will be one of the brightest objects in the night sky.
Here is how to catch this comet as it zips past our planet.
What is the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet?
While the comet was just discovered in 2023, it is very old. According to NASA , the comet is from the Oort Cloud, believed to be a massive spherical shell surrounding the solar system containing icy pieces of space debris as large as mountains…